Derwent Pastel & Charcoal Pencil Sharpener, Manual Handheld Sharpener, Professional Quality, 0700234

This does a great job of sharpening pastel pencils without breaking them. Dont think it's just the same as a normal pencil sharpener, it isn't. Normal sharpeners will repeatedly break the soft and fragile core of a pastel pencil because the core gets jammed in the narrow end of the tapered hole and breaks. This has a cut-out in the bottom of the narrow end so the core isn't under so much torsional pressure. This means you can get a very sharp point without having to use a Stanley knife or scalpel, it's a lot quicker too. Just remember that some pastel shavings come out of the bottom cut-out of this sharpener so don't sharpen over your work unless you want random bursts of colour everywhere! It might seem a little bit pricy compared to normal plastic bodied pencil sharpeners but it's well worth the money as it does the job it's made for and does it well. I'm going to get a spare one the next time I order something from Amazon.

Great sharpener for charcoal and wider pencils, like Derwent Drawing. Gives a bit shorter point than standard sharpeners.

Works well on pastel crayons. The picture is deceiving on size !

Great sharpener. Hard to find a sharpener for pastel and conte pencils, this sharpens 100% conte pencils and about 60% of Derwent pastel pencils. Worked on Carbothello as well.

I thought these were big enough for oil pastel sticks as advertised but only suitable for pencil size graphite or colour crayons!

Does the job

It seems to work where other sharpeners break the pencils. Great for pastels.

Good quality, will be even better if I can change blades